This presentation, featuring First Light and the Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship Nil yut ktahkomiq nik (the whole earth is our home), will explore one of the most ambitious efforts in the conservation movement in our country to relearn history, repair relationships, and return the land.
We will look at the work of First Light, now in its fifth year, sharing and returning land and resources to Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Micmac, and Maliseet First Nations. We will explore what is at stake and what is to be gained through these efforts to engage differently and to share perspective and power. We will explore tools that other land conservation groups are using to share power and land, and how these tools are changing who they are and what conservation means. We will do a deeper dive into what land justice asks of us and our organizations.
About Our Presenter, Peter Forbes
Peter’s life work is about the courageous convening of people across differences of race, class, and ideology to resolve matters of consequence to their shared future. Peter is the co-founder of First Light, an ambitious effort among 65 organizations in Maine and the Wabanaki people to increase their presence and sovereignty on the land. He is the author of four books on people and place and the owner of Knoll Farm, an organic fruit farm and community gathering place in the mountains of Vermont where he and his partner, Helen, raised their family.
Who Should Attend: We welcome any Department of the Interior staff and partners and anyone else who may be involved with tribes or who wishes to learn more about working with tribes.
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